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The Doorway

A work made of etching, drypoint and roulette with foul biting in warm black, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream laid paper.
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  • A work made of etching, drypoint and roulette with foul biting in warm black, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream laid paper.

Date:

1879/80

Artist:

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Title

The Doorway

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1879–1880

Medium

Etching, drypoint and roulette with foul biting in warm black, with selective wiping of plate tone, on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 29 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 30.2 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1938.1878

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